Essential Psychology

What you will find inside: Practical tools, wisdom and guidance you can learn and use immediately. Theories to explore more deeply that will enhance your success. Professional and personal development questions to boost your initial practice. Reassurance that you can achieve the outcomes you want for your clients despite being new to the field.

There is a pivotal sea change happening in children’s development. The age of puberty has been trending earlier for decades, and now starts as young as 8 years old in girls and 9 in boys. Bullying doesn’t just happen on the playground, but over text and DM. Depression and anxiety are drastically on the rise. Couple earlier puberty with ill-equipped, developing brains and the onslaught of new media and stressors that never existed when we were kids, and it’s clear that parents need a new guide to raise this new generation.

A practical guide to staying well in a high-pressure profession. In the midst of a recruitment crisis and a massive exodus of teachers from our schools, now is the time for some joined-up thinking about teacher well-being and mental health. Filled with insightful advice and practical strategies, Peter Radford's Love Teaching, Keep Teaching invites educators to think differently about the way education is 'done' and shows them how they can keep doing the job they love without sacrificing their health and well-being.

Low self-esteem can increase your anxiety, cause depression, and prevent you from embracing the amazing opportunities that life has to offer. Combined with overthinking, it can send you into a downward spiral of unhappiness. Fortunately, this sad process is reversible with the right exercises and self-improvement techniques - such as the ones you’ll discover in these books.

The Essential Sporting Mind Toolkit will help you develop the sports performance mind skills for mental toughness, to optimize performance and fulfill your true potential. It's every sportsperson's how to guide to achieve true potential. Even the most talented, fit and dedicated athletes fall short on training their minds.

As parents and caregivers of young children, we know what we want for our children, but not always how to get there. Many children today are stressed by academic demands, anxious about relationships at school, confused by messages they hear in the media, and overwhelmed by challenges at home. Young children look to the adults in their lives for everything. Sometimes we're prepared...sometimes we're not. In this book, Shauna Tominey guides parents and caregivers through how to have conversations with young children about a range of topics....

Neuro-linguistic programming is a behavioral science that uses proven techniques to help you in real life. It uses outstanding methods for changing the negative way of thinking into a positive one. Neuro-linguistic programming is relating three things together; thinking, language, and behavior or emotions. Its applications cover many aspects of everyday life.

I was executive director for a nonprofit for those with mental illness, I gave speeches from Washington DC to Berkeley. People told me to write a book, so I did. It was about 20 pages. Basically, it was on of my speeches. I decided I didn't know enough to write a book and to take a year to do some research. That research extended over four years. I self-published it five months before the advent of Kindle. I updated it, added about 80 pages and published a second edition in January of 2019.

Todo mundo precisa de oito horas diárias de sono? Por que comer após o pôr do sol pode afetar nosso peso? As pesquisas do neurocientista Russell Foster sobre o relógio biológico nos orientam para os horários ideais de dormir, comer, praticar exercícios, estudar e trabalhar. Saiba como viver em harmonia com o seu.

While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any circumstances, it can be especially challenging if a teenager has a serious mood disorder. This concise book is the definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with bipolar disorder, designed for parents and other adults in contact with afflicted teens.

In this part memoir, part mental health resource and how-to guide, Jo Love throws opens the door of her therapist's office and shines a light on what exactly goes on in the therapy room. With the help of experts, including her very own therapist, Jo opens a rare window into the real world of therapy, unpicking the magical powers that enabled her to re-find her own voice, restored her resilience through the cloudiest days and ultimately saved her from her own mind.

Easy, accessible guidance for addressing an essential element to college success: mental health.

Peter Bandettini covers the essentials of fMRI, providing insight and perspective from his nearly three decades of research. He describes other brain imaging and assessment methods; the sources of fMRI contrasts; the basic methodology, from hardware to pulse sequences; brain activation experiment design strategies; and data and image processing. A unique, stand-alone chapter addresses major controversies in the field, outlining 26 challenges that have helped shape fMRI research.

In this book the philosopher Jonathan Westphal examines the mind-body problem in detail, laying out the reasoning behind the solutions that have been offered in the past and presenting his own proposal. The sharp focus on the mind-body problem, a problem that is not about the self or consciousness or the soul or anything other than the mind and the body, helps clarify both problem and solutions. Westphal outlines the history of the mind-body problem, beginning with Descartes.

If you finish this audiobook and apply the principles laid out in it, you will most likely immediately see positive changes within the relationships you have with other people. This will lead to you being more popular among others and getting more respect and reverence.

Traditional psychiatry, psychotherapy, and pastoral counseling - many Christian parents have tried these methods to help their troubled tweens, teens, and young adults, but have found that nothing works. These parents are frustrated, feel criticized by their church community, and no one seems to understand their teen, with caregivers providing outdated advice. In Your Teen’s Miraculous Brain, Dr. Nina Farley-Bates combines Christian principles and scientific methodology to bring relief to struggling families, gleaning from her 20 years of experience to help teens thrive.

Some has the ability to victimize other people by preying on them. Whereas many restrain from this tendency, there are those who act on these instincts. In this audiobook, you can discover dark psychology techniques that are used by people to influence, manipulate, and coerce others to get whatsoever they want.

Stress isn't what most people think. It's not something to eliminate. It is something to manage. There is so much you can do to manage your stress before it manages you. Here are four steps anyone can do to get the power of stress on your side. The more you learn about, learn how to identify, reduce, and recover from stress, the more you will feel empowered.

Have you ever experience walking into a meeting or a room where you notice strange vibes that are uncommon, perhaps a tense mood, or sense that something is going to happen? You are not alone and many others like you have this “special gift” but only a few aware what is it. Some start to practice and master this gift to lead a satisfying empath lifestyle and empower their relationships with others. As a empath or highly sensitive person, you have the gifts of empathy, sensitivity, compassion, and you are usually far more creative than others.

Welcome to the High-Intensity Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Course, a compact yet potent program designed for mental health practitioners interested in advancing their expertise in high-intensity CBT. This course offers a focused dive into high-intensity CBT, providing you with the skills to apply effective therapeutic techniques and support your clients more effectively.